detached from the conventional and expected routines of home life such as regular meals, transportation of children to school, schedule
of home-based occupations, regular home-maintenance
such as cooking and laundry.

Channels the vibration of the curators, custodians, protectors, and guardians without ego-membrane interference.

Stability of the childhood home is unreliable and the childhood security is often destabilized by mother's scattered energy.

chalakaraka Rahu =

Fascination with the halls of power. Ambition to obtain "by whatever means necessary" the privileges accorded to heads of state, organizational leaders, top-level governance authorities, social regulators, officers of law and order

Gifted in service of providing security to others, by one who does not own a home, or has no fixed residence; or one in service to education, by one who holds no diploma; or one who guards and protects the Earth, who does not own the Earth

The highest manifestation of Ketu consciousness = impersonal but wise custodial stewardship of the land.

A general vagueness or fogginess in matters of
lands, properties, vehicles, boundaries, nation and
nationality.

Ketu in bhava-4 may indicate a despair arising from a deep and unsatisfied longing to connect with the "roots " of one's mother's lineage.

One may feel fundamentally insecure
throughout life.

Ketu in bhava-4 may suggest acute disappointment toward one or both of
the parents, a dysfunctional parent or a parent with some type of alienating
chronic condition such as a mental or physical illness, addiction,
et-cetera.

POTUS-pair-32 Learn by Living 1884-1962Eleanor Roosevelt
lost both of her parents to
advanced dysfunction. Her father was a severely toxic alcoholic who died
in asylum.

One may desperately try to possess material goods in the effort to feel secure. However the gnawing deeper dissatisfaction will always be present because Shri Ketu is sending a message!

"Witness viewpoint" will be especially effective regarding expectations of the parents , who are rather bound to be failures in the business of providing core security
to one who has this Ketu placement in bhava-4.

In addition to signifying peculiar (Ketu) parents, the marriage may also
feel disconnected when
Chandra-yuti-Rahu-10

Adams spent very little time in the parenting role, and his children found him rather unavailable. His own parents
(4) had followed a similar pattern of long absences from home. Their
children were sent to boarding schools. Two of JQ Adams' sons died
before age 30 of alcoholism and depression, which ran in their family
lineage. Adams expressed little sympathy toward their suffering
(Ketu) seeing these traits not as emotional wounds but rather similar to
his own parents
Ketu-yuti-nichha-Kuja
as moral failings. Nevertheless Adams identified strongly with his homeland USA
since lagnesha-Kuja occupies bhava-4 homeland. During his entire life, he worked to defend and support the
fledgling nation.

One may have an ill mother, whose energies are Ketu-scattered

Both parents of POTUS-pair-32 Learn by Living 1884-1962Eleanor Roosevelt
were profoundly ill and
both died during her childhood

Ketu-4 indicates that shows that the inner witness is both non-reactively aware of
home activities and largely unmotivated to alter them regardless of the
consequences.

Due to Rahu-10, the Ketu-4 nativity
is often found in highly visible placements in the social hierarchies. One craves
recognition, iconic status, or governance power and typically the life trajectory has prepared the native to take
a high position.

Rahu craves elite privilege (10) while Ketu shows the great base of the settled folk (4).

One commonplace feature of Ketu-4 is that the native may
be vaguely schooled or perhaps educated in schools outside of the homeland
(4).

Roots in the home culture are weak whilst ambitious connection to the larger
hierarchical structures of world power, international and corporate
pyramids which span regional boundaries, are proportionally much stronger.

Foursquare Evangelist 1890-1944 Aimee Semple McPherson*
Zukra-yuti-Ketu. During the first part of her evangelical Christian
missionary campaign, she wandered for years, lived in her car and
preached from the back seat. As her congregation became based in Los
Angeles, they provided a house for her but she was frequently engaged in
ongoing national tours. The house that she did have, and the house of
worship built by her followers, was said to be gaudy but pretty and with
karmesha-Zukra ruler of uttama-Rahu-10 and Zukra attending Ketu-4, her
church (4, house of worship) became very well known. Nevertheless she
was at heart a peripatetic preacher.

There can be several scenarios.

One version is that Ketu-4 has been educated abroad. Thus one obtains the lingua-franca of the times, and one comes to possess the habits of elite behavior within the privileged classes. Conversely, one may not be familiar with the local languages or
folkways, ancient customs, and established cultural norms. Most critically that portion of religion which is folk-custom and superstition (the major part) may unfamiliar to Ketu-4.

Another scenario is that one is educated indeed in the local schools, but the desired (Rahu) seat of power is located in an adjacent sphere. Thus one is familiar with the
folkways, ancient customs, and established cultural norms of one's own folk but lacks a rooted understanding of the full group of peoples over whom one gains governance control.

due to Makara-Ketu being more lawful via yogakaraka Shani uttama in lagna, UK-PM Path to Power 1925-2013Margaret Thatcher * GhakataKSY received a solid parochial education including university. (However true to Ketu, she never used her
college diploma in chemistry, going instead directly into politics.) Yet her draconian economic reforms showed her disdain for the welfare of Britain's working classes. Mrs. Thatcher's narcissistic lack of empathy was a source of continuing discontent bordering on upheaval during her entire reign. Upon her death in 2013, celebratory bonfires were lit in the streets of working-class cities.

Another version = schooling (4) : foundational education = local and patriotic but very exclusive and elite, so that Ketu-4 grows up almost entirely out of contact with the Great Base of the Pyramid which consists of the lower peoples and their emotionally charged but parochial worldview.

Despite the general expectation that he would assume the titular head of the British ruling family, UK-Prince 1948-Charles of Wales did not attend university. His education consisted of home-schooling by nannies in various royal estates, then attendance at elite boarding school which admitted only aristocratic students. Charles then entered military service as a top officer (Chandra-Rahu-Mesha-10) again socializing only with officers. The
folkways, ancient customs, and established cultural norms and beliefs of the Great Base would have been unknown to him in early years.

UK-PM Finest Hour 1874-1965Winston Churchill
. According
to his writings, young Churchill as a child barely saw his
father. Before school-age, he had a nanny; then he was sent to
boarding school and neither of his parents
visited him there. Nevertheless the name
"Spencer-Churchill" was widely recognized in
aristocratic British society, granting
entitlements to property (4) and admission to
elite schools (4).

Ketu's behavior is always directed by Ketu's ruler. Here
is a case of Ketu-4 ruled by a powerful
uttama-Mangala-1 casting drishti into Ketu-4
while Mangala is further strengthened via Guru and more.

Opus Dei 1902-1975 St.Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer * KSY * * Ketu-4 ruled by uttama- Budha-yuti-Kuja-yuti-Guru-1 with
Guru-1 parivartamsha to lagnesha Shani-12.
Father Escriva founded several colleges and a
university. Despite his propensity to discuss extreme experiences of personality-dissolution while in a state of prayer (which is not much different from clinical insanity) Fr. Escriva retained and indeed developed his
priestly legitimation within the RC Church due to the enormous support from Ketu's institution-loving
Makara-Draco planetary rulers. Not to mention that Ketu receives the powerful 4th drishti of
Mesha's ruler the uttama-Mangala-1, which pushes this Ketu into the
fundamental-schooling activities in a very dynamic
way. Yet the schools all retain Ketu's misty
qualities of uncertain boundaries between
conventional education and personal spiritual
experience.

Untenable properties * such as slaves

POTUS-17 Reconstruction 1808-1875Andrew Johnson
= untenable
rules of property ownership. Ketu-Bharani-4 ++ Ketu's ruler Mangala-Kanya-9 = argues for exploitation.
Johnson was a self-taught frontier politician whose education was spotty
and whose reading had followed an eccentric path (Ketu eccentric)
Johnson had sampled literature the fields of history, philosophy,
and law. He was considered to have more than a few holes in his
jurisprudential understanding (Kuja-9 owns + drishti to Ketu-4).
Rahu-10 made Johnson an ambitious government worker who held many regulatory jobs including US-Senator and Governor of
Tennessee, Johnson was a proven lawful leader. Yet he claimed the
ultimately unsupportable (Ketu) legal position that slave-holders'
rights were Constitutionally guaranteed under the right to private
property. After the
14th Amendment
was passed following the USA Civil War, no human being could be legally
categorized as property . However, President Johnson continued to argue
vociferously that slavery was legal. He worked so hard to thwart the14th
amendment that he was impeached by Congress for obstructionism.

Rahu-10 desires to rule over a people whose folkways, ancient customs,
and established cultural norms and expectations are only vaguely understood (Ketu) and toward whom Rahu-10 feels a certain disregard for their commonness. Not contempt, but a certain incoherent vagueness of comprehension (Ketu).

POTUS-31 Challenge to Liberty 1874-1964Herbert Hoover
* During the first, worst years of the Great Depression, Hoover suffered
from chronic alienation from the common base. Promoting a champion's
narrative of self-reliance (Rahu-10-Meza) rather than building social
safety nets for the vulnerable unemployed masses, Hoover lost the
election due to people thinking he was a heartless, detached, elite
creep, responsible for the Hooverville homeless encampments (Ketu-4)
that grew in squalor across the USA.

Ketu-4's vagueness about the life lived by the vast majority in the great base of the social pyramid partners with power-hungry Rahu-10's notorious ability to rule fiercely, absent empathy for the common people.

POTUS-16 Emancipation 1809-1865Abraham Lincoln * bandesha-4 Mangala-10-Thula yuti Rahu * Lincoln issued the
federal government laws (10) that illegalized slavery
(rogesha-6 Budha-2 in 9th-from-6). Lincoln entered the US
presidency in 1860 saying that
he had no intention of
destroying the livelihood of
planters, but toward the end of
the horrors of the USA Civil War
his Ketu-4 showed its disregard of
consequences by doing it anyway (Mesha-4,
unboundaried movement in the homeland). Whilst
legally rectifying (Mangala-Thula-10) a heinous social injustice,
the resulting
sudden slave emancipation almost
instantly destroyed the
year-round production of the
agricultural system of the
American South.

The Emancipation
Proclamation allowed what Karl Marx called "the
means of production" (the slaves) to walk off their
enslaved jobs. It
plunged an
entire class of slave-owning
Southern farmers into dire
poverty . Because the Emancipation
Proclamation
made no provision for the
education, protection, or social
integration of the liberated
slaves (Ketu-4, formless, thoughtless), it plunged the slaves
into starving homelessness as
well. The bitter foundational (4) acrimony between
North and South has not yet
healed.

Ketu-4 yearns for: emotional stability, mother's unconditional love and deep roots in the culture of a settled people - but cannot sustain it

one often lives abroad or moves nebulously from home to home within several cultural districts of the homeland

Ketu periods feature extensive wandering, and perhaps even abandonment of the homeland if bhava-11 (8th-from-4th) is strong

as a life trait, may undertake long journeys across the land, such as long automobile trips during which normal routines (4) are suspended.

Helpful in military careers because Ketu-4 is comfortable with a scattered home-base and long absence from home-roots.

(bhava-11 = 8th from 4th = new patriation, new homeland identity, new passport)

(give adequately stable home environment if Ketu's ruler is strong, but one feels frequently insecure and dissatisfied with these)

Relationships

Institutional vs. Parochial

Ketu in 4 = one is often psychically compelled by a hunger for validation via high-visibility professional roles.

The home life including parenting and property ownership becomes less engaging

Often the parents, especially the mother, are emotionally unavailable

The Ketu native may appear disinterested and dissatisfied toward even the most socially grand and spectacular home properties or educational diploma. Unless the bandesha-4 is strong, even prestige vehicles such as luxury automobiles may have little attraction.

If in a position of social power, Ketu-4 is likely to have professional livery or simply prefer to walk.

The homelife is somewhat scattered ,

one is disinterested in conventional school,

the parents are often in some state of ungroundedness or insufficiency (often financial)

there may be substitute parents who are servants or salaried workers

the household is rather unstable

and the native may be diagnosed with some variety of wandering attention pattern

on the plus side, extra-sensitive psychically to the presence of plant-deva and spiritual guidance in the garden - although one may not follow through on their instructions, the natural perspective is non-discriminating and one may be aware of their presence at least.

Unless Chandra is very strong the parents might be emotionally unavailable.

POTUS-pair-32 Learn by Living 1884-1962Eleanor Roosevelt mother absent; father institutionalized for life, alcoholism and mental condition. Her education at a boarding school in England was suddenly interrupted and she knew very little stability until she was married.

Psychological expectation of abandonment and rejection by parents, homeland, schools and schoolteachers, caretakers, the place of birth. the native may abandon homes and vehicles and leaves school.

One may leave the region of birth and move to a new region, or even reject one's citizenship and adopt a foreign country as the new homeland, only to become rootless and dissatisfied in the new place. (Ketu = abandonment, chidrakaraka)

Abandonment or separation from the parents, loss of home, stability
et-cetera for spiritual benefit of moksha

Ketu-4 may suggest a withdrawn or addicted personality to mother,
although the primary indicator of Mother is
matrikaraka Chandra. Ketu-4 must be considered only
a secondary indicator of the mother's instability, and
more often a pattern of rootlessness or frequent house
moves or needing often to stay in temporary dwellings
for reasons of work duty.

Mother is emotionally unavailable or unreliable. Child must learn to mother him/herself. Extreme weakness of adult parent-type role models.

During Vimshottari periods of Ketu, feelings of homelessness and rootlessness. Child must learn to create their own safe nest.

During Ketu bhukti of any mahadasha and acutely during the Ketu-Ketuswabhukti, one born with Ketu in Bandhu Bhava may have a hopeless feeling that one's mother (or both parents), childhood home, schooling, owned property, and folkways 'roots' cultural habits(4) are slipping away for reasons that seem out of your control .

This feeling of being a drifting spectator toward the conditions of one's own life may be even more profound when either Chandra or the radical lagna occupy a
Nakshatra of
Ketuva =
Azwini, Magha, or Mula.

Ketu-4 weakens the physical heart, therefore the native must attend more carefully than normal to one's cardiac health.

Without proper attention, heart can become a psychic weak spot which lacks protective boundaries.

With sensible lifestyle, regular check-ups and management of diet, the problems can be averted.

Ketu in 4 =

Apathetic or detached from home,

mother, property,

folkways, ancient customs, and established cultural norms of the mother's family, the nation-state,

Neglects: home, roots, properties, socialization, licensing, basic education, the mother and her people

Regardless of how one is really handling the world of home and country, the native can passively reflect the patriotic, parent-and-teacher loving image of the psychic projections of the collective unconscious.

Ketu the Witness connects the native to the experiences of His house through all-encompassing, no-judgment observation. No ethical analysis, no cultural filters. Sees all. In bhava-4, the experience is binding oneself to cultural roots for security.

Dissatisfaction, ambivalence and uncertainty regarding the privilege to express property ownership and education in the customs of the maternal line.

Depending on Ketu's lord, the native may have educator's skills or ability to manage lands, properties, and vehicles -- but one feels detached from their value.

Peculiarities of
the immune system, especially the lymph glands And the stomach . Must take care to protect the stomach from psychic incursion of grief, due to an effable sense of loss .

The mother (and parents as a unity) are overly detached and frustrated in life, creating emotional insecurity for the child.

Some aspect of the childhood home is uncertain and unstable - perhaps parents fail to pay the rent, or their livelihood requires frequent moves, or their personality disorders make the home unsuitable for guests.

Education is also disrupted and inconclusive. There are other possible means to the end - but the end is, emotional instability and uncertainty due to conditions of childhood home.

Marginalized by the "guardian class" of the educational and"cultural roots " establishment.

Ketu in bhava-4 may indicate a despair arising from a deep and unsatisfied longing to connect with the"roots " of one's mother's lineage. One may feel uneducated, unlicensed, unprotected physically or emotionally, and profoundly disconnected from or unwanted by one's parents.

Ketu in Bandhu bhava indicated disconnectedness (and need to take a"witness " role toward) matters of belongingness, shelter and the primary"shelterers " (the parents), ownership or stewardship of the earth, entitlement to possess material goods especially properties and vehicles,"foundations " , and the conclusions or ends of matters.

Ketu in bhava-4 gives Acute disappointment toward one or both of the parents, a dysfunctional parent, or a parent with some type of alienating chronic condition such as a mental or physical illness, addiction, etc.

The relationship to the parents being the most basic"root" of all emotional and cultural security, the native with Ketu in bandhu bhava may feel fundamentally insecure throughout life. c

One may desperately try to possess material goods in the effort to feel secure. However the gnawing deeper dissatisfaction will always be present because Shri Ketu is sending a message!

The message is "witness ". One with Ketu in bhava-4 who can achieve the neutral and disengaged perspective, who holds no expectation of
normal results, will achieve remarkable spiritual liberation.

"Witness viewpoint" will be especially effective regarding expectations of the parents , who are rather bound to be failures in the business of providing core security o one who has this Ketu placement in bhava-4.

(Ketu in 4th-from-Moon, lack of protective security from the maternal grandmother. Also improves
with witness to her behavior, replacing criticism or reactive judgment.)

Detachment from the mother's home. The character of the mother herself is best seen through Chandra, but Ketu is sukha
bhava shows that the mother is not much present in the
child's early home life. (Mother may in fact be out in
the world and influencing the child in other ways;

A wandering sensibility in education. Samples various studies, but precious little deep meaning available from formal education. Poorly prepared or uncaring teachers in early education. Does not easily absorb or attach oneself to the conventional values of his birth culture.

An outlander in terms of cultural identity; may identify more strongly with a country not his own. Unless the Moon is very strong, mother is a weak influence on personality development.

Mother is disconnected from the home, and substitute caretakers fill her role. She may be detached from her own foundations through mental illness, drug addiction, heavy external commitments, or other disassociation with the home-keeping and nurturing role.

Absence of a strong attachment to the maternal home may stimulate a stronger connection to the father's beliefs and lineage.

UK-PM Path to Power 1925-2013Margaret Thatcher cites her childhood political discussions with her conservative father as the most powerful influence of her youth.

Little interest in sustaining traditional home life, or ownership/stewardship of the land. May not be concerned with environmental pollution or responsibility toward Earth. Free agent; few roots.

When Ketu occupies bandhu bhava, Rahu must occupy karmaa bhava. Native will have a desire to develop the values of the father's family (bhava-10) into some sort of public leadership role.

Native's national sensibilities are blunted; while their international or global orientation is strengthened. These natives are citizens of the world, but they may not have the full trust or support of their own people.